Something interesting happened in my 11th grade class today concerning lucid dreaming.

**NoctemConArtist** · 01-26-2011 03:51 PM

I'm the only serious lucid dreamer in my class. I've shared it with a few friends, but only I am really trying hard to become lucid. Well, something happened in class today that, as an active dreamer, I found rather interesting.

For an assignment, we were supposed to come up with a product, and make an advertisement about it. Today was presentation day. Watching the presentations, I found that at least 2 groups made an advertisement about a product that would make you "dream what you want". One of them was a "Dream Pillow" on which you could type your scene onto an inbuilt keyboard, and it would transport you there in your dreams. The second was even more interesting, because it resembled the NovaDreamer, yet I know there's no way those students could've known about that device. The function of their product, called the "Dreamer", was: "You put it on before you sleep, imagine what you want to dream." (Sound like MILD anyone?) "The Dreamer will save the image and play it during your REM sleep."

It strikes me as rather interesting that so many people want to control their dreams. I wonder what they would say if they knew it was possible, but that it required work and time. :p Even with the NovaDreamer, you'd have to know how to induce the dreams. There's no such thing as playing an image during REM. Well, just wanted to share. And I also think this ties in with one of these threads here that ask why people don't want to lucid dream. Clearly many people want to be able to "dream what they want". But maybe they don't want to put in the effort.

A final comment from the teacher which I also found interesting. I noted after the dream presentations were over that "there are quite a lot of people who want to control their dreams." She replied that she'd noticed that too, but thought that it wouldn't be fun to control a dream because "then it wouldn't be a dream anymore". I'm not really sure what I think of this, but I sure am glad to be a lucid dreamer, to be thinking about dreams in a completely different light than my classmates. Makes me feel a bit special.

**IAmCoder** · 01-26-2011 03:55 PM

Pretty cool - you need to give them the link to the forum!

Originally Posted by NoctemConArtist

There's no such thing as playing an image during REM.

But you could play back a recording that describes an image during REM...

**nina** · 01-26-2011 05:14 PM

Your teacher sounds rather ignorant.

**Shadow27** · 01-26-2011 05:17 PM

Originally Posted by Aquanina

Your teacher sounds rather ignorant.

I agree. Most people I have noticed are pretty ignorant when it comes to lucid dreaming though

**NoctemConArtist** · 01-26-2011 05:37 PM

Originally Posted by Aquanina

Your teacher sounds rather ignorant.

She's a good teacher, but ignorant in the respect of lucid dreaming, just like the rest of my class and probably 90% of the world population hehe. In her case, I think she doesn't recognize the possibilities lucid dreaming offers. And some people just aren't interested and prefer the real world, I guess.

I've definitely decided on my senior project topic.

**nina** · 01-26-2011 05:56 PM

Originally Posted by NoctemConArtist

She's a good teacher, but ignorant in the respect of lucid dreaming, just like the rest of my class and probably 90% of the world population hehe. In her case, I think she doesn't recognize the possibilities lucid dreaming offers. And some people just aren't interested and prefer the real world, I guess.

I've definitely decided on my senior project topic.

Well, I mean, clearly she's ignorant about lucid dreaming...but it's also just odd that she would say that she didn't think it would still be a dream just because you are aware of it. Which is just a weird comment to make. You should have set her right.

You should let us see your senior project when it's done.

**Shadow27** · 01-26-2011 08:53 PM

Originally Posted by Aquanina

Well, I mean, clearly she's ignorant about lucid dreaming...but it's also just odd that she would say that she didn't think it would still be a dream just because you are aware of it. Which is just a weird comment to make. You should have set her right.

You should let us see your senior project when it's done.

Again, I agree